Tuesday, September 26, 2017

"Waiting for a Kiss"
So, I got this unfinished
bowl, from a wood turner friend of mine. Apparently the bowl was a
'reject' from her shop, as it had a small crack on one side.

The bowl sat in my studio for months . . . then one day, I started drilling
holes into it and adding rusty nails and screws and paint and bits and bling and
images, and this is what happened. . . .

Because the bowl was uneven on the bottom, I had to figure out how to stabilize it. I fitted a vintage 'baby moon' hubcap to the bottom and magic
happened.
This added movement to the piece.
The frog on top, well that's the Prince who is "Waiting for A Kiss"

"An American Quilt"
for this piece I found 2 10"x10" wooden frames. In between the 2 pieces of glass you will find 165 dice and other dice-like game pieces. The dice are free-standing, adding an interactive quality and movement to the assemblage.
Includes a wooden stand, for table top/shelf display.

This piece reminds me of a quilt my mother made for me many years ago, which I still have.

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

"She's Not The Girl I used To Know"
This is an experimental piece, recently juried into the Sebastopol Center for The Arts show titled "Marvelous", an international show of Assemblage and Collage. Over 600 entries from all over the world. 97 pieces were selected, and I must say, I am honored to be in such good company.

About the piece: She started out as a wooden fruit bowl found at a garage sale. Immediately I saw a heart in the shape of the bowl ~ and that was the direction I had planned to go. . . .

When I started working on this piece ~ I used text and images from a Greek art book I found a few years before. My idea was to embellish the piece as a heart, but soon "It (the piece) seemed to be telling "me" to go in a different direction. It became a face, instead of a heart. . . .funny how that happens.

In 2015, my husband and I spent a month in Spain, visiting several cities. As is my custom, I will often see things laying on the ground, and if they look interesting to me, I pick them up, thinking they will some day be part of an art piece: pebbles, bottle caps, keys, coins, and the like.
For some reason, that summer in Spain, I was attracted to rusty nails, screws, washers, wire and other bits of rusty metals.

I don't often work with 'rusty-things, but these just seemed to work well with this bowl.

I finished the back with a very thin piece of wood, more text from the found book, and wired it for hanging.

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